Reviewing the 1990s, a decade virtually unprecedented in the history of the American radical right.
Reviewing the 1990s, a decade virtually unprecedented in the history of the American radical right.
Bernard von NotHaus' NORFED group and several others try to bring in fortunes by selling antigovernment theories and products to gullible Patriots.
The antigovernment Patriot movement is revealed most fully in its publications.
A federal judge, angered at the financial scams of the Montana Freemen, sentences the group's leaders to long terms.
Leaders of the antigovernment Republic of Texas group planned to purchase a building to become their 'capital.'
For many people employed as country clerks, court recorders and other government jobs, the fear of threat and attacks by an antigovernment common-law zealot never ends.
For years, the Montana Freemen issued 'common-law' edicts harassing local officials and others, but after a standoff with the FBI, a federal trial seems likely to topple their group.
The 'common-law courts' have been the most radical and active part of the antigovernment "Patriot" movement for the past three years, making threats and issuing dangerous false legal documents.
The Montana Freeman's philosophy, while rooted in antigovernment and 'common law' ideology, is also racist.
Hate group expert Daniel Levitas spent eight years in the Midwest researching and developing community responses to the Posse Comitatus, the Christian Identity movement and other hate groups.